Luke Patrick

Local drivers recommend staying out of Turnagain Pass and avalanche forecasters recommend avoiding the backcountry until the snowpack stabilizes.

Photojournalist Luke Patrick caught up with the artists behind the amazing Fur Rondy snow sculptures.

Nancy Rudolph lives a very simple life in a trailer park in Anchorage. Due to her health, she doesn’t get out much — but when she does it’s the short trek to the mailbox. One day last year while checking her mailbox she saw a little snowman behind her somebody had made. It just made her day! She's held on to that picture and that moment for over 12 months. Due to her health and all the recent snowfall, laughs and smiles have been a precious commodity for Nancy. So she sent me an email letting me know how much a little snowman made her day and how she was hoping whoever made it last year might do it again. Well, so far no one has come forward to claim they made the little snowman. But we went out to meet her and to find out why that little snowman meant so much to her.

Thursday was an exciting day In Girdwood and it was made that much more fabulous by freshly-fallen snow on what is opening day for season passholders at Alyeska Resort. Photojournalist Luke Patrick was there as skiers and riders took to the slopes for the first time this season.

Black soldiers who were an integral part of building the Alaska Highway were celebrated last week on the 80th anniversary of the ALCAN's completion. Photojournalist Luke Patrick captured the words of those soldiers in this week's "Telling Alaska's Story."

A splash of color will be brightening up downtown Anchorage as artists from Hope Community Resources get to work on a brand new mural. Photojournalist Luke Patrick was there when the first brush stroke launched the project.

Chief Meteorologist Melissa Frey stopped by Nome Elementary School where students are still processing the major storm that moved through their town.

As the water clears, the City of Nome works to clean up the mess and make repairs to the damage the storm created. Melissa Frey reports from Nome.